Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473904044
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- +1 (313) 457-2050
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,602
- Expenses
- $27,639
- Assets
- $168,351
- Liabilities
- $777
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM DAVID TARVER (President)
- FRED HALL (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM DAVID TARVER (President)
- REGGIE BARNETT (Treasurer)
- KAREN LOPEZ (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative provides the inspiration, information, and connections that innovators, entrepreneurs, and supporters need to improve the quality of life in urban communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support the work of entrepreneurs, business development organizations and governmental organizations by the following means: (1)provide tools for urban entrepreneur education and training;(2) connecting urban entrepreneurs with strategic advice and financing opportunities; (3) providing an information exchange for case studies, business models, technical innovations and other useful information; and (4)recognizing and publicizing other notable achievements of urban entrepreneurs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.7%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 46.8%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 72.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.09; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 12.7% of revenue deployed · 46.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.